Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1500
MS M.1170. Fol. 118r

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1) Virgin Mary: Infancy, Instruction -- Anna, veiled with wimple, partly seated extending open book to hands of youthful Virgin Mary, kneeling, both nimbed; in hilly and grassy landscape.
Miniature for beginning of Suffrage to Anna.
2) Within opening of cave, half-figure of Mary Magdalen, nude, emitting rays, with joined hands raised, looking toward covered jar on ground.
Miniature for beginning of Suffrage to Mary Magdalen.